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I was unfamiliar with these guys, and if you'd asked me to categorize their sound based on name alone, I'd have guessed they were one of those bluegrass groups beloved by cultish country aficionados and nobody else.

Such a pompous patriarchal prerogative recalls the utopian communes that sprang up in America in the 19th century around the cultish figure of an inspired leader, many of whom gleefully devoted themselves to the practice of free love.

The following behavior changes do not necessarily imply there is a cult problem, but if someone you know has become deeply involved with a new group or organization and exhibits many of these changes it may indicate a cultish involvement.

cultishness

It will doubtless push him beyond the high-end cultishness that currently defines his popularity; an exhaustive BBC documentary about his life and work, due to be shown in the next few weeks, should only compound its impact.

Here's where the academy's cultishness emerges most strongly - because it's an institution where you can only fail yourself and your leaders.

That update of a stylish 60s cult show lacked the, well, style and cultishness of the original.

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Paying a fake rabbi to tie a red string around your wrist is not Jewish mysticism - it is superstitious cultism.

He must snap out of the cocoon of cultism and accept that it's time to hand on to his successor.

In each of these cases and many others the crucial distinction is that the passion for cinema reaches a point where it must manifest itself in some way beyond mere attendance at screenings, be it cultism, criticism, or film-making.